TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baum,Howell S.
TI  - Community Action for School Reform
SN  - 9780791486672
AV  - LC221.3.B35 -- B38 2003eb 
U1  - 371.19/09752/6 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Community Action for School Reform -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Introduction -- 1. School Reform and Educational Improvement: Challenges and Responses -- 2. Attachment and Knowledge -- 3. Building the Education Field: Getting Parents, Schools, and Communities Together -- 4. Baltimore, the Schools, and the Southeast Education Task Force -- Part 2: Research as a Way of Getting Started -- 5. Getting Started, Getting Bearings -- Part 3: Participation -- 6. Creating the Southeast Education Task Force -- 7. Organizing Networks for Southeast Education: Engaging the School System -- 8. Organizing Networks for Southeast Education: Connecting with Parents and Community Institutions -- Part 4: Action -- 9. Doing Something -- 10. Education and Empowerment Zone: Participation in the Service of Action -- Part 5: Research as a Means to Action -- 11. Acting as a Way of Knowing: Action Research -- 12. Knowing as a Means to Acting: Research for Action -- Part 6: Money -- 13. Money Matters: The Costs of Participation, Research, and Action -- Part 7: Tensions between Attachment and Knowledge -- 14. Realities and Fantasies in University-Community Partnerships -- 15. Why Community-School Partnerships Are Unlikely -- 16. Building Networks in Turbulent Fields: Tension between Attachment and Knowledge -- Part 8: Lessons and Conclusions -- 17. Evaluating the Southeast Education Task Force -- 18. Can Community Action Reform Schools or Improve Education? -- Notes -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 1 -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 2 -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 4 -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 10 -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 14 -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 15 -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 16 -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 17 -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
N2  - Presents an innovative community approach to educational improvement
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